Yes, there was a network-wide issue at the time of your post and it's now under investigation. You can follow the bug thread of the PKR forum to see how the situation develops, though the thread is filled mostly by bugs exclusive to PKR's atrocious proprietary 3D client that is not up to the network's usability standard thus far (has no auto-addon, no seat auto-centering, poor HUD compatibility, etc.), but alas it's the only MPN operator that has a public forum, to my knowledge, so it's also the best source of info about network-wide things. (To post there, one has to create an account with PKR that also serves as the forum account; but you can just lurk.)

My MPN account got frozen for verification, they called me on the phone and afterwards sent an email that my account has been re-opened many hours ago. Now I try to log in and the account says that I have self-excluded myself, which I have nt. Support not replying and I'm freaking out because the self-exclusions are irreversible according to the iste. Any experiences with similar issues, can they re-open it if they ****ed it up themselves?

Yes. But for the depo bonus you don't need to deposit a lot, you just pick a target that you think you can clear within the given time allotted. So it's a playthrough bonus, at least on Betsafe, idk about other skins.

Hi Alex, as far as I can see, there are the following limitations on how MPN operators can promote themselves:

1. The VIP cashback can't exceed 30%.

2. The return from deposit / reload bonuses apparently can't exceed 20% of rake (except Ladbrokes when they were on the MPN ).

3. The network apparently decides the total size of promotional prize pools given to an operator (or group of operators run by the same company) to spend in a month.

But are there any other restrictions, in particular, of the frequency of reload bonuses? I thought operators were otherwise free to promote themselves the way they wanted, it's just they can't give too much to regulars because the True Value system makes a $ of a regular's rake less valuable.

Oops, apparently, the True Value system is going into the past, as per today's MPN blog post that I've just noticed, which is quite a revealing read as usual

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

It’s obvious that winning and losing (and, in a more indirect way, depositing and cashing out) impacts your real value during a session. But there are lots of other ways to impact other players value. For example, you can increase an opponent’s value by:

Being a fun or exciting player to play against
Chatting and making them feel welcome, thus encouraging them to play longer
Playing a loose style – i.e. getting involved in big pots with them
Starting a new table – giving them an opportunity to play when there might not have been otherwise
Playing quickly
Doing many other things we haven’t thought of yet

You can decrease an opponent’s value by:

Abusing them in the chat – causing them to quit or play shorter sessions
Playing excessively slowly
Making them feel targeted or predated upon (for example, parasitic tactics like using a seating script to instantly sit with the fish)
Cheating against them (for example, colluding with a friend)
Playing an extremely tight style
Being a dull, unexciting person to play against
Doing many other things we haven’t thought of yet

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

In the last ten years we’ve changed the way we value players several times:

It’s time for us to move to Level 5, and factor in everything about a player’s impact on the ecosystem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

The good news is, we already have our data scientists (that’s right, we’ve got data scientists!) working on a quantifiable way to do exactly this. The intended result is to value players correctly, factoring in not only the rake that they generate but also their impact on the lifetime values of everybody they play with. We can then reward players far more intelligently than the industry does now, and in a way that doesn’t penalise winners simply because they are winners, or reward depositors simply for depositing.

I hope my activity at PKR forums counts as a plus I was dreaming for so long to see any poker site incorporate chat activity and timeout frequency into VIP rewards.

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Don't know prolly something like 12.